Textbooks and readings

NOTICE: All material of the course is self-contained and based on freely available books and surveys.

Main references:

• Online convex optimization, by Elad Hazan
• Convex Optimization, by Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe
• Convex optimization: algorithms and complexity, by Sebastien Bubeck

Python Tutorials

• An interactive python tutorial from LearnPython.com
• Tutorial for Python 2.7 from python.org
• Tutorial for Python 3 from python.org

Exercises

collaboration policy: you are allowed to collaborate with any of your peers in the course. In this case: clearly spell out near the title of your submission whom you consulted with (if you consulted for others, no need to add anything).

• Exercise 1 . pick 4 questions from first 7
• Exercise 2.
• Final project